MIT Press and Boston Review are excited to announce a new joint venture—a new book series called Boston Review Books.
Boston Review Books are accessible, short books that really take ideas seriously. They are animated by hope, committed to equality, and convinced that the imagination eludes political categories. The editors aim to establish a public space in which people can loosen the hold of conventional preconceptions and start to reason together across the lines others are so busily drawing.
We're launching the series with two new titles which are just now out. The first book is The End of the Wild, a wake-up call by Stephen M. Meyer arguing that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can still take steps to save our ecosystem. (You may have read Meyer's piece about what backyard bug zappers do to our ecosystem a few weeks back). And the second is Lew Daly's God and the Welfare State, which explores the ideas about God and government behind Bush's faith-based initative.
And more titles to come—watch for a searing indictment of the American penal system and an encouraging account about the potential foreign aid has in reducing poverty this spring.
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